Politics of the Apocalypse

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The announcement of the end of the world has taken hold in the public debate. There is no shortage of signs that the catastrophe is underway: global warming, 6th extinction, destruction of ecosystems. Does the imminence of the apocalypse require a radical rethinking of politics? What kind of politics can we imagine if we have entered "the time of the end"? This is the starting point of this seminar, which proposes to study politics in the light of this threat. The seminar proposes to study the most contemporary theories - collapsology, anthropocene, survivalism - as well as the oldest ones, since the theme of the end of the world is at the heart of modern political thought.